Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina are being freed because of a new amnesty bill, which, according to BBC News, pardons women with young children who have not committed violent crimes.

According to USA Today, the bill allows authorities a six-month period to carry out the amnesty, meaning it could take weeks or months before the two women are released. They are currently sentenced through February.

Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that the amnesty bill was not "linked" to Pussy Riot, as Reuters reports. "I was not sorry that they [the Pussy Riot members] ended up behind bars," Putin said. "I was sorry that they were engaged in such disgraceful behavior, which in my view was degrading to the dignity of women. They went beyond all boundaries."

The Russian Supreme Court recently reviewed the verdict of Pussy Riot's trial, saying it was never proved that the jailed artists were "motivated by hatred toward any social group."

Earlier this year, there was a massive call for the band's release by several enormous names in music, including Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Bruce Springsteen, the Knife, Paul McCartney, Björk, Animal Collective, Yoko Ono, Portishead, PJ Harvey, Adele, Patti Smith, and tons of others.